February 5

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[edit] Events

• 1917 - The Congress of the United States passes a law, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, banning most Asian immigration to the United States.
• 1919 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists, before heavy Jewish involvement.
• 1997 - The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.

[edit] Births

• 1589 - Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet (d. 1669)
• 1608 - Gaspar Schott, German mathematician (d. 1666)
• 1914 - William Seward Burroughs II, American novelist (d. 1997)

[edit] Deaths

• 1520 - Sten Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden (b. 1493)
• 1948 - Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (b. 1883)